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by wil421 1224 days ago
Most of the time it’s a rar file that contains screenshots, album art, thumbnails, etc. not just a video file. I’ve been burnt a decade plus ago when I automated some extractions into a media folder on an old windows laptop. By the time I noticed, it was deep in the registry and near impossible to remove. It was something akin to MacKeeper malware on Macs, I don’t recall the old windows malware names.

With my Usenet automation I’ve never had the issue in about 9ish years but it could happen. I pay a usenet provider and indexer a low fee to rid myself of torrents and seeding.